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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 25, 2022 19:04:04 GMT -6
game 6 and canada wins 3-2 to keep our chances of winning the tournament alive. paul henderson with his first of 3 consecutive GWGs.
this is the game where things started to resemble a war more than a hockey game. canada was complaining about the german refs because they ended up with 31 minutes in penalties to the soviets' 4 minutes. if my memory serves me, i think canada likely deserved most of them. they were as chippy as hell.
this was also the game of "the slash", where bobby clarke's 2 hander to kharlamov's left ankle might've been a turning point. although kharlamov finished the game and the series, he wasn't as effective.
the best thing about the win was that the country had real hope for a comeback. as a result we got to listen to game 7 in the classroom on the radio and of course got to watch game 8 in the gym.
edit: "black mark on hockey" indeed, but the russians weren't fckn angels either. clarke's slash got all the press but this slash on henderson in game 5 you never hear much about.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 26, 2022 2:54:43 GMT -6
i'll tell you, i hated montreal back in the '70s but oddly there was some of their players i didn't hate and dryden was one of them.
he's always been an articulate and intelligent speaker. he gives his thoughts here about the '72 series and how it changed the game in north america.
and man oh man...i often wish i was born earlier a few years and was one of the 3000 canadians who travelled to russia for the last 4 games.
i can't imagine what an experience that must've been.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 26, 2022 20:10:31 GMT -6
likely better to put games 7 and 8 here together.
the last 2 games start at 1 hour and 4 minutes in and it's 30 minutes to the end.
i can gab about this until the cows come home but better to just watch the hilites here.
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 28, 2022 4:29:18 GMT -6
likely the most iconic photo of the series, i never realized who had taken it.
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Post by tincup on Oct 3, 2022 19:00:09 GMT -6
Curious how many of these companies exist as their own entities today. There’s lots more in the thread I forgot about. Loved the old Sherwood 5030’s.
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 3, 2022 19:20:43 GMT -6
Curious how many of these companies exist as their own entities today. There’s lots more in the thread I forgot about. Loved the old Sherwood 5030’s. never bought a bit of hockey gear in my life but i do own a blackhawks' CCM sweater. did you know CCM stood for Canada Cycle & Motor? (i didn't) a little bit of history from their wiki page. i'd heard of "tacks" skates before but never knew much about them. i think tacks (and super tacks) were a pretty popular choice of skates for a while. Founded in 1899, CCM produced bicycles for many years in the area of Weston, Toronto, Ontario. They also briefly produced the Russell automobile.
By 1905, with saturation in the bicycle market, CCM began producing hockey skates using scrap steel that was left over at the plant from the manufacture of bicycles and automobiles, and subsequently began manufacturing other hockey gear.
In 1937, CCM acquired the Tackaberry brand made by a Manitoban named George Tackaberry and "Tacks" remained the company's signature skate until late 2006. |
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Post by steamer on Oct 4, 2022 13:26:20 GMT -6
Very interesting about CCM! I have a pair of CCM Tacks 952s gathering dust in the basement. Prior to those I had some Bauer low end skates that were uncomfortable as hell. I liked the CCMs but haven’t skated in a couple of years. If the trend in skates is like other sports footwear and equipment, I bet today’s top end skates are feather weight light.
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Post by BigT on Oct 5, 2022 18:18:10 GMT -6
Bauer makes the best stuff. No argument!!!
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Post by tincup on Oct 5, 2022 22:09:05 GMT -6
Bauer makes the best stuff. No argument!!! Yep, don’t know so much about the newer stuff they make but the last pair of gloves I had were Bauer. Loved them enough to get them repalmed, twice. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 6, 2022 22:19:27 GMT -6
Bauer makes the best stuff. No argument!!! Yep, don’t know so much about the newer stuff they make but the last pair of gloves I had were Bauer. Loved them enough to get them repalmed, twice. approximately how many face washes does it take to wear out the palm of a hockey glove? |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 6, 2022 22:33:46 GMT -6
this guy is the epitome of underrated.
30 or more goals in 17 of his 19 nhl seasons. 708g, 627a in 1432 reg. season games. 8th all time in goals scored.
from his wiki page:
Despite his long impressive career, Gartner never won the Stanley Cup or played in the Cup Finals, never won an NHL award, and was never named to the postseason All-Star Team, being one of the few NHL players with this distinction to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
winning a cup in this league counts for a lot i guess.
he was one of the fastest skaters all time and was pretty good in his own end too.
it's pretty wild that a guy with all his creds you never hear much talk about.
anyhoo, he also scored the last goal in the old stadium as well. ('94 playoffs)
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Post by vadarx on Oct 6, 2022 22:42:51 GMT -6
Yep, don’t know so much about the newer stuff they make but the last pair of gloves I had were Bauer. Loved them enough to get them repalmed, twice. approximately how many face washes does it take to wear out the palm of a hockey glove? 3. |
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Post by vadarx on Oct 6, 2022 23:28:51 GMT -6
for the record...
I had to post the video for anyone who might not get the reference. I literally answer almost every question involving "how many of x does it take to get y" with 3. most of the time it elicits confusion and/or annoyance...
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Post by Tater on Oct 7, 2022 1:41:18 GMT -6
for the record... I had to post the video for anyone who might not get the reference. I literally answer almost every question involving "how many of x does it take to get y" with 3. most of the time it elicits confusion and/or annoyance... I got it right away. Probably cuz I'm old.  |
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Post by vadarx on Oct 7, 2022 8:38:58 GMT -6
for the record... I had to post the video for anyone who might not get the reference. I literally answer almost every question involving "how many of x does it take to get y" with 3. most of the time it elicits confusion and/or annoyance... I got it right away. Probably cuz I'm old. yeah, I get those responses from younger folks for sure. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 7, 2022 18:28:44 GMT -6
former blackhawk goalie dave dryden passed away a couple days ago. i don't remember much of him, his last year in chicago was about when i started cheering for the team. he played 68 games across 3 seasons for chicago but the bulk of his work was in the WHA. funny about how often you learn things about someone after their passing. i never knew it but dave dryden designed the first cage type goalie mask that they all use today. also made many innovations to other pieces of goalie gear that are still prevalent today. “Dryden would show up at Cooper (the hockey company now known as Bauer) when I was working there,” Harrison said. “He’d come into the design department and ask, ‘Why do we need all this leather on the glove and blocker? We can use nylon and make it lighter.’ ”
It was trial and error back then. The nylon worked well in areas of the equipment that didn’t come in contact with the ice very often. So Dryden, along with the equipment designers at Cooper, tinkered until they found the magic combination of weight and durability.
Dryden, who retired after the 1979-80 season with the Edmonton Oilers, was the first to wear a padded practice jersey that he sewed together on his own. More than a decade passed before the first padded practice jerseys were available in stores.
While impossible to verify, Harrison believes that Dryden was the first to attach arm pads to his chest protector. Goaltenders had always worn them separately before Dryden decided to bust out the needle and get creative.
“With the cage combination mask, how it occurred, (Dryden) came into Cooper with an idea,” Harrison recalled. “He had the front half of an SK600 player helmet, and he had a wire cage that he had soldered together himself. And he had the back piece of one of his other masks.”
Harrison remembers it like it was yesterday. He was still working for Cooper at the time but had a burgeoning mask-making business on the side.
“Dryden told Cooper: ‘I want a mask that fits like a fiberglass mask, but give me the eye protection of a cage. And it needs a backplate,’” Harrison recalled. “Well, Cooper refused to make it. They said it has to be a helmet.”
When his employer said no, Harrison saw an opportunity.
“I told Dave: I’ll design that,” Harrison remembers fondly. “He went to training camp in Europe with the Oilers, and he got nailed one of the first times he wore it. Dave said that he didn’t feel a thing. He got hit right in the center of the mask and nothing happened.”
Today, every goaltender in the NHL wears a cage combination mask.www.yardbarker.com/nhl/articles/amp/dave_dryden_wasnt_just_a_great_goalie_he_was_an_equipment_innovator/s1_16958_37968382he reminds me of tony esposito when it comes to innovative equipment design, although tony's were, shall we say "designed to give him (and him alone) a competitive edge." : ) |
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Post by steamer on Oct 9, 2022 9:18:44 GMT -6
A lot of stuff happened on 10/9 over the years in the NHL. Canucks played their first game in 1970 and Caps their first in 1974.
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Post by phill9 on Oct 13, 2022 9:03:01 GMT -6
October 12th, 2009 - A night to remember
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Post by Tater on Oct 13, 2022 11:15:25 GMT -6
October 12th, 2009 - A night to remember
Thanks for posting this. Great memories there. |
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Post by BigT on Oct 13, 2022 11:49:51 GMT -6
I show my son that a lot. He wasn’t born yet. Not till 2011. But the message is “Never ever ever give up”. Anything can happen if you try!!!
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Post by phill9 on Oct 13, 2022 11:51:37 GMT -6
October 12th, 2009 - A night to remember
Thanks for posting this. Great memories there. I was at that game as a season ticket holder. 2 things stands out in my mind. First, there was a mass exodus either after the 4th or 5th goal, even though it was still the 1st period. So for all those that left, they missed the greatest comeback in Blackhawks history. I NEVER leave any sporting event early, no matter the results.
My 2nd memory is at that time, Versus was the NHL home and they were in a dispute with Directv so it was off the service when this game was played. I always recorded every home game despite being there, simply because sometimes you catch things on TV you may have missed at the game, plus I loved listening to Pat Foley (although in this case it was a national broadcast so no Foley). So I was pretty PO'd that I couldn't rewatch this game initially. But several months later Versus aired it again, although in a condensed form, once the dispute between them and Directv had been resolved. So I did finally get to relive it!
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Post by vadarx on Oct 13, 2022 11:51:54 GMT -6
back when it didn't matter the deficit, the team knew it could/would still win... what a run...
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Post by phill9 on Oct 13, 2022 11:55:03 GMT -6
back when it didn't matter the deficit, the team knew it could/would still win... what a run... This might have been the game that led to their belief, happening in the first Cup run (2009/10 season). It may very well have been the game that catapulted them, more so then the previous seasons playoff experiences. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 13, 2022 16:39:15 GMT -6
i must have been at work because i never saw that game.
seabrook of course...
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 13, 2022 17:32:31 GMT -6
he's my all-time fav.
i thought i knew most everything about him and then this pops up.
i'm sure i knew about it at the time but like many things i must have forgotten about it.
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Post by phill9 on Oct 13, 2022 18:27:07 GMT -6
i must have been at work because i never saw that game. seabrook of course... As it was only televised on the now defunct Versus channel, you may not have had access to it either. Not sure what you can (or in 2009 could) get by you. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 18, 2022 17:53:51 GMT -6
sad to hear that borje salming has been diagnosed with ALS at 71. i can't imagine anyone not wanting a player like him on their team. he was as tough as they come and under rated imo. sad to say the news doesn't get any better. |
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Post by Nikos on Oct 18, 2022 19:13:09 GMT -6
sad to hear that borje salming has been diagnosed with ALS at 71. i can't imagine anyone not wanting a player like him on their team. he was as tough as they come and under rated imo. sad to say the news doesn't get any better. Hopefully they can find a cure for this awful disease, probably not in most of our lifetimes, but soon enough. It is heartbreaking to see photos and stories like this. This guy took a beating when he first came here, was tough as they come and held up very well. Unfortunately, he is not able to beat this terrible disease. God Bless you Mr. Salming. |
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Post by T-man2010 on Oct 19, 2022 6:47:12 GMT -6
sad to say the news doesn't get any better. Hopefully they can find a cure for this awful disease, probably not in most of our lifetimes, but soon enough. It is heartbreaking to see photos and stories like this. This guy took a beating when he first came here, was tough as they come and held up very well. Unfortunately, he is not able to beat this terrible disease. God Bless you Mr. Salming. Same thing is happening to Steve McMichael from the old 80's Bears. |
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Post by jacksalmon on Oct 19, 2022 22:04:02 GMT -6
game 6 and canada wins 3-2 to keep our chances of winning the tournament alive. paul henderson with his first of 3 consecutive GWGs. this is the game where things started to resemble a war more than a hockey game. canada was complaining about the german refs because they ended up with 31 minutes in penalties to the soviets' 4 minutes. if my memory serves me, i think canada likely deserved most of them. they were as chippy as hell. this was also the game of "the slash", where bobby clarke's 2 hander to kharlamov's left ankle might've been a turning point. although kharlamov finished the game and the series, he wasn't as effective. the best thing about the win was that the country had real hope for a comeback. as a result we got to listen to game 7 in the classroom on the radio and of course got to watch game 8 in the gym. edit: "black mark on hockey" indeed, but the russians weren't fckn angels either. clarke's slash got all the press but this slash on henderson in game 5 you never hear much about. I wonder if anyone ever slashed Clarke in the face in retaliation for his dirty play. I hope so and that it happened many, many times. What a thug!!!!! |
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